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Archive for Will Fitzgibbon

A great tradition of open justice
October 16, 2012 | by | Comments Off
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Secret courts threaten the old principle of open justice.

Experts urge government to protect freedom of information law
October 11, 2012 | by | Comments Off
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Experts fear restrictions to freedom of information laws.

Going undercover on land and on the seas
October 2, 2012 | by | Comments Off
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Did BBC Panorama and Channel 4 Dispatches need to go undercover?

Leaked emails warned G4S over Iraq murders
October 1, 2012 | by | Comments Off
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G4S was warned about an unstable employee days before he killed two colleagues in Iraq.

Schools fleeced by IT scammers
September 25, 2012 | by | 4 Comments
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BBC’s Panorama investigates IT scams leaving schools with million-pound debts.

Scores of British MPs and superstars linked to offshore tax havens
September 21, 2012 | by | 1 Comment
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68 MPs and Peers have business links to tax havens.

‘Archaic’ and ‘unaccountable’ coroners system gets a new boss
September 21, 2012 | by | Comments Off
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The Today Programme asks whether the first ever Chief Coroner can live up to the hype.

Analysis: The new health secretary and the £650m private healthcare takeover
September 11, 2012 | by | 1 Comment
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Clues point to what sort of Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will be.

Analysis Where are all the US Paralympic golds?
September 5, 2012 | by | 6 Comments
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US Paralympic Team fails to equal Olympic counterpart in medal tally.

NHS PFI firms avoid millions in tax
September 4, 2012 | by | 1 Comment
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A report reveals that NHS finance firms pay fees into tax havens.

Report and be damned: an American whistleblower’s story
August 28, 2012 | by | 1 Comment
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August has been a busy month for whistleblowers in the United States.

Rolling in it: The MPs making six-figure sums outside parliament
August 22, 2012 | by | 4 Comments
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Which well-known backbench MP made nearly £1m last year?

US government buys technology to spy on employees
August 21, 2012 | by | 1 Comment
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American Federal agencies spend big on monitoring employees’ personal communications.

Operation Flex: the most incompetent FBI sting ever?
August 15, 2012 | by | 1 Comment
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This American Life reveals how the FBI ‘thwarts’ domestic terror attempts.

How to rescue Britain’s scandal-hit banks
August 13, 2012 | by | 1 Comment
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BBC’s Radio 4 explores the British banking crisis and suggests ways to fix it.

Blood on the racetrack: gangs and corruption in racing
August 7, 2012 | by | Comments Off
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Money laundering and race fixing dog the ‘king of sports’.

Global surveillance industry gets a new toy
August 3, 2012 | by | 1 Comment
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The rapid rise of Palantir, the newest darling of the global intelligence industry.

Five years on from Baby P, abuse is still killing babies
August 1, 2012 | by | 1 Comment
Nereya Case, left, and her sister were stabbed to death by their father

An NSPCC report reveals that, five years on from Baby P, 20 babies are still killed every year

New Zealand looks to keep a register of judges’ finances
July 25, 2012 | by | 1 Comment
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Will New Zealand’s move to transparency spread to the UK?

Media, police and justice
July 18, 2012 | by | 6 Comments
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A public debate disusses the merits but lack of investigative journalism.

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Yemen: reported US covert actions 2013
January 3, 2013 | by | Comments Off
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Dataset: US resumes targeting of alleged militants within days of the year's start.

Emma Slater wins New Journalist of the Year
December 5, 2012 | by | Comments Off
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Winner described as 'big issue journalist' for her Bureau investigations.

A statement by the Bureau’s Trustees
November 25, 2012 | by | Comments Off
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An inquiry into the nature of the Bureau's involvement in a Newsnight programme.

‘OK, fine. Shoot him.’ Four words that heralded a decade of secret US drone killings
November 3, 2012 | by | 10 Comments
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Tenth anniversary of US covert programme which has killed thousands.

Britain’s highest court brands US rendition ‘unlawful’
October 31, 2012 | by | 2 Comments
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Rendition of a Pakistani man to detention facility described as a possible war crime.

Arrests and intimidation plague victims of Marikana massacre
October 29, 2012 | by | Comments Off
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The Marikana massacre inquiry is meant to heal wounds. But is it adding insult to injury?

UN team to investigate civilian drone deaths
October 25, 2012 | by | 4 Comments
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Expert condemns Obama's failure to establish effective monitoring.

Home Office condemned over plans to deport Syrian activist
October 25, 2012 | by | Comments Off
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Britain is the only EU country returning asylum seekers to Syria.